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Went to the science and surplus store by me today and they had em for around $25. They were all ranging from 2-7mw and 500-700nm. Anyone ever mod these? With their shear size, I would imaging that they are tweakable without as much concern about heat dissipation.

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Well, I once dissected a laser printer, finding a small diode with a big heatsink, but being rather noobish about electronics and LDs, I was not able to get it to work. It was anyways "just" about 20mW somewhere in the IR.

But try to find something to do with them, mod them or something! Still, I think even with 7mW and a huge heatsink, you won't get a 500mW overpowered burner
500nm would be nice, though, what is the lowest wavelength they can offer? If you might get an orange diode, that would be coolest.

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Went to the science and surplus store by me today and they had em for around $25. They were all ranging from 2-7mw and 500-700nm. Anyone ever mod these? With their shear size, I would imaging that they are tweakable without as much concern about heat dissipation.

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High Octane said:

[quote author=momentarylapse link=1191284089/0#0 date=1191284089]Went to the science and surplus store by me today and they had em for around $25. They were all ranging from 2-7mw and 500-700nm. Anyone ever mod these? With their shear size, I would imaging that they are tweakable without as much concern about heat dissipation.